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Disney Removing Bill Cosby Statue From Hollywood Studios Theme Park
Disney is the most recent major company to distance itself from Bill Cosby following the unsealing of court documents in which the once-beloved TV dad reportedly admitted to buying drugs to give to women for the purpose of sex. According to the Orlando Sentinel, a Walt Disney World spokeswoman confirmed on Tuesday evening that the…
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Muslim Group Launches Campaign to Raise Money to Help Rebuild Black Churches Damaged by Fires
Since the June 17 fatal shooting of nine African Americans inside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., some six black churches have been torched throughout the South. According to Al-Jazeera, three Muslim organizations—Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative, the Arab-American Association of New York and Ummah Wide—have created the “Respond With Love” campaign to raise…
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Fla. Woman Is Arrested After Reportedly Telling Teens: ‘I Hang Your Family From My Tree’
Lisa Marie Elberson, 29, of Lake County, Fla., spent the last day of her Fourth of July weekend in a county jail, the the Orlando Sentinel reports, after allegedly chasing a group of teens down a block wielding a baseball bat. She also allegedly yelled a racial slur at them. Elberson was apparently finishing her…
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Texas Makes Changes to History Textbooks: No Mention of KKK or Jim Crow, and the Civil War Was Fought Over States’ Rights, Not Slavery
A change is coming to public school education in Texas, a change that was voted for in 2010 and will take effect when students go back to school come fall. It’s happening in history class—in the new social studies textbooks that students will be using to learn U.S. history. New state academic guidelines changed some…
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SC Church-Shooting Suspect Dylann Roof Indicted on 4 More Charges
Dylann Roof, the South Carolina suspect who was arrested and charged in the shooting deaths of nine people inside Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., last month, has been indicted on new charges by a grand jury. NBC News reports that Roof has been charged with three counts of attempted murder connected…
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Report: Md. Boy Dies After Brutal Beating for Eating Birthday Cake
A Maryland boy has succumbed to injuries after reportedly being brutally beaten by his mother’s boyfriend for eating a slice of birthday cake without permission, according to the Frederick News-Post. The 9-year-old, from Hagerstown, was beaten to the point of unconsciousness and died over the weekend at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.…
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16-Year-Old NYC Teen Helps Save Residents From Apartment Fire
A Brooklyn teen is being dubbed a hero after stopping to help residents in a three-story apartment building escape a deadly early-morning fire in the New York City borough’s Flatbush neighborhood, the New York Post reports. Taliq Thomas, 16, was walking home from a friend’s house around the time of the fire, which reportedly started…
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SC Senate Votes 36-3 to Remove Confederate Flag From Statehouse Grounds
Tuesday’s vote was essentially a vote of formality, a required one that will, one way or another, bring to an end the debate surrounding the Confederate battle flag flying on South Carolina’s Statehouse grounds in Columbia. State senators voted 36-3 on Tuesday to remove the flag from its position on Statehouse grounds and move it…
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Black NC Woman Denied Library Card in 1942 Returns at Age 92 to Get One
Pearl Thompson was a student at Shaw University in 1942 when she walked over to a public library in Raleigh, N.C., to check out a book she was assigned to read for class. But instead of issuing a library card to Thompson and allowing her to check out the book, the library staff at the…
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Mich. Student Faces Felony Charge for Driving to Well-Lit Area to Pull Over
DaJuawn Wallace was taught to ensure that he was in a safe, well-lit area before pulling over his car for a presumed traffic stop. Now the Detroit native, a student at Saginaw Valley State University, is facing a felony charge of fleeing and eluding for putting that lesson into practice, MLive reports. It was around…